Relationships between parents and children are the main point of a play in many literary works. Through their relationship the reader can understand the conflicts of the work, as the characters play different roles in each other's lives. These people are usually connected in physical and emotional ways. They can be brother and sister, mother and daughter or father and son. In Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman,” the interaction between Willy Loman and his sons, Biff and Happy, allows Miller to comment on the father-son relationship and the conflicts that arise from it. In “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, he shows this in the interaction between Amanda and her children, Laura and Tim. For example, Miller's comedy “Death of a Salesman” shows a father-son relationship, where at certain moments Willy, the father, wants to become an actor in his son's life more than he deems necessary. There are several reasons for this and they can be demonstrated in several ways. Miller manages to give an example of his behavior through the method. That kind of favoritism has a profound effect on a child, to be recognized by his father, Happy believes he must become the successful version of Willy by gaining wealth and popularity. Happy has lived his entire life in a way that he believes will get him his father's attention, yet his father ignores him and becomes unhappier than if he had gone his own way. When a father chooses to favor one child over another, the father-son relationship occurs as well as in the child's life. Within this relationship, the father's responsibility is to provide values, a role model, and leadership for his children. In almost all families, children look to their father as a role model and a hero, which in this case Biff does but Happy does not. It is in the father's best interest to use this opportunity to pass on these qualities and allow his children to become responsible